Bp Pictures4 » Pine Tree Web Home Page (original) (raw)

Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: India, Mafeking & South Africa 1899-1903



Portrait of Baden-Powell (1903) Commanding Officer South African Constabulary

	Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards in India, 1899. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Baden-Powell Commanding.
	Lieutenant-Colonel Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, Commanding 5th Dragoon Guards, India, 1899 (detail of group photo showing officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards in India, 1899).
	A View of Mafeking in 1899
	Baden-Powell with officers of the Protectorate Regiment (Colonel Hore’s Regiment) prior to the siege of Mafeking.
	Baden-Powell in his office at Mafeking during the siege of 1899-1900.
	Baden-Powellat Mafeking during the siege.
	Baden-Powellat Mafeking during the siege.
	Baden-Powell with his staff at Mafeking.
	"A Night Sortie from Mafeking" A contemporary newspaper illustration.
	Three scenes from the South African War: a Boer Ration Party, Boer Scouts in the Veld, and theBoers’ Big Creusot Gun at Mafeking.
	News of the Relief of Mafeking reaches London on May 18, 1900.
	The celebration of the Relief of Mafeking as illustrated in the London newspapers.
	Major-General, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, shortly after the relief of Mafeking.
	Baden-Powell as Commanding Officer of the South African Constabulary

ABOUT THIS COLLECTION

I have been collecting photographs of B-P, as well as copies of his own writings, drawings, and paintings for about 15 years. Many of the originals come directly from editions of Baden-Powell’s writings, or from the archives of the British Scout Association (U.K.) and the Boy Scouts of America. The photos and drawings presented in this gallery have been collected from a wide variety of sources. Many of them appear in several different works (such as several well-known photo of B-P at Brownsea Island). Key sources include: Works of Sir Robert Baden-Powell; William Hillcourt (Green Bar Bill) with Baden-Powell-The Two Lives of a Hero, Olave Baden-Powell 1964 & 1994; John S. Wilson, Scouting Around the World, 1959; Russell Freedman, Scouting with Baden-Powell, New York, 1967; Laszlo Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, Chicago, 1985; Robert W. Peterson, The Boy Scouts-An American Adventure, New York, 1984; Tim Jeal, The Boy-Man-The Life of Lord Baden-Powell, New York, 1989; Michael Rosenthal, The Character Factory, New York, 1988; Heather Baden-Powell, Baden-Powell: A Family Album, 1986; E.E.Reynolds, Baden-Powell, London, 1942; Eileen K.Wade, 27 Years with Baden-Powell, London, 1957; Eileen K.Wade, The Piper of Pax, 1924; Frederick Russell Burnham, Scouting on Two Continents, 1926; Frederick Russell Burnham, Taking Chances, 1924; C. R. B. Barrett, History of the XIII Hussars, London, 1910; Winston S. Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 1939. The Gallery also includes several video captures from the video documentary, Scouts! The Rise of the World Scout Movement, Michael Murphy, producer, Churchill Films, 1986. The film includes archival footage and stills from the collections of the British Scout Association, the Boy Scouts of America, the Scouts of Canada, the British Film Institute, the National Film Archive, Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress Film Archives, EMI Pathe, British Movietone, Visnews, the Bettmann Archive, the Mansell Collection, the National Army Museum and the Imperial War Museum. The photograph of B-P with James E. West is courtesy of Rev. Michael Bruce Johnson and is from the Archives of the Chief Seattle Council, BSA, Seattle, Washington. The Frank Donohoe Collection is courtesy of Kevin Snair of Toronto, Canada.

	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: India, Mafeking & South Africa, 1899-1903 Thumbnail Graphic Index
	The Last of the Gentlemen’s Wars. The Fifth Dragoon Guards in the South African War.
	"This small place, which sprang in the course of a few weeks from obscurity to fame …" opens Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s retelling of The Siege of Mafeking. Author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Conan Doyle provides an excellent contemporary account of the siege in his history, The Great Boer War: A Two-Years’ Record, 1899-1901.
	It was at the Siege and Defense of Mafeking during the South African (Anglo-Boer) War that Baden-Powell made his name and first gained public recognition. 1999 marks the beginning of the Centennial of the War. Developed as part of that observance, Perspectives on the South African War provides a collection of links to original and contemporary sources on the South African War.
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: Complete Index Without graphics
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: Early Years and Military Career, 1878-1898 Thumbnail Graphic Index
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: Military Career & Final Years, 1904-1937 Thumbnail Graphic Index
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: Scouting with Baden-Powell, 1907-1920 Thumbnail Graphic Index
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: Scouting with Baden-Powell, 1920-1929 Thumbnail Graphic Index
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: Scouting with Baden-Powell, 1929-1941 Thumbnail Graphic Index
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: Home & Family, 1912-1941 Thumbnail Graphic Index
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery: The Frank Donahoe Collection Thumbnail Graphic Index
	Baden-Powell Photo Gallery Baden-Powell at the World Jamborees Links to the World Jamborees, 1920-1937
	Baden-Powell Home Page

Your feedback, comments and suggestions are appreciated.
Please write to:

Lewis P. Orans